emidew22

So it's the "holiday season" again and i was wondering what strange traditions you and your families have. My family is weird in general, so it's not really surprising that we do weird shit around the holidays. The oldest tradition that i can remember is having christmas crackers at christmas dinner. This is something that my dad started when he came over here from ireland, and i thought it was normal for many years, but apparently in the states it's not so common. We are the only family i know that has big group pictures where everyone is wearing an oversized paper crown. We also play cards, but not poker or euchre like normal families, we play this game called tripole where you have a mat that you put your bets on and it's in increments of nickles... i don't know, no one outside my family has ever heard of it. And the strangest and most beloved tradition, which started only a couple years ago is the pepperment pig. My mom came up with this one. Every year after christmas dinner we all gather 'round the table and someone reads the story of the pepperment pig, and then we pass around a little red sack that has a big pig made out of pepperment candy inside, and all take turns smacking it with this little hammer. And when we are saticfied with how small the pig pieces have become, we pass the bag around again so everyone can eat a piece or two. It's a little deranged and almost scarey when you see the look in some of the cousin's eyes when they're getting ready to take a swing...
Anyways, please let me know that i'm not the only one who wishes we could just hide a pickle in the tree!!